Re: [Ayatana] Persistent menu mockup

[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

That looks great, and solves most of everyone's complaints with the current hidden global menu. I do have one concern: what happens to the window controls when the window is maximized? you could scoot the menu over a bit, but then, that might look odd for non-maximized windows. Other than that though, I'd love to see this, as it's a viable contender.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:50, S. Christian Collins <s.chriscollins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi folks,

Many people have mentioned the problems with the inconsistency of the new panel (menu only visible on hover, etc.).  Here is my proposed solution to this problem:

• The menu of the active window is always displayed in the panel.
• The title of the active application is displayed on the right side of the panel, just to the left of the system tray.
• There is a clear division in the panel between the application title and the system tray to visually link the window's title with its menu.
• The application's icon is displayed transparently beneath the window title for at-a-glance identification of the active window.  This would make it easier to tell which window is currently active.
• If the active window's menu is long enough to drift into the application title, the title would simply fade out at its leftmost edge (similar to its current behavior whereby the title fades at the rightmost edge when the menu appears).

Have a look at my mockup and decide for yourself:



-~Chris

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